Sister Marli MacLay: Week 2 MTC

Our whole zone at the temple!!!

Hey folks!

So yeah it snowed this week and I only packed for Texas so all I have is one little cardigan. Lol I've been dying. My comp let me borrow her extra jacket for the day it snowed, bless her heart.

We started teaching our actual investigators this week! Their names are Erika and Aubrey. Erika was really quiet and a little harder to teach. Aubrey was the opposite and never stopped talking or asking questions lol. It was awesome. One of my favorite things she said was "it's like there was a piece of the puzzle I didn't even know I was missing." soooo true. I love trying to see things from the investigators perspective. We do about 50 practice lessons a day and half of them you're acting as the investigator so that's fun.

I really do feel like I've learned and grown so much in the short time I've been here! I'm so grateful for my companion and my district. They have all taught me so much! The main thing I've learned from my comp, sister Nautu is so be a little more relaxed. She is always smiling and laughing. Even during our lessons it's super helpful because it helps not make it so heavy. She's super lovable and just plain awesome. And she loves being barefoot haha.she will just take her shoes off at dinner or wherever she don't care.

So let's see, highlights of the week...

The devotional by Larry Echo Hawk of the seventy. Another devotional by a music group called the lamb of God. It was about Christ and the atonement and it was incredible! There were talking parts and people acting as like Peter or Mary. Supa cool.

Yesterday was eventful lol. We exercise at night. One of our sisters was going harrrd on the elipitcal and then I was doing "drills" and coaching the sisters in our district in basketball haha. It was fun. But anyways after we were done at the gym we gathered as a zone to have a prayer and that sister just blacked out and fell down. She's all good now but then after that one of the new sisters was having a really hard time and needed a blessing. we couldnt get in contact with the elders so we ran to the info desk and had them call their zone leader phone. they told them a sister in the zone needed a blessing and so they all got dressed in their suits and sprinted over within 3 minutes. then elder allen gave the most amazing blessing of all time for the sister who needed comfort. The spirit was so strong.

This week I've learned so much about teaching the plan of Salvation and the restoration to investigators. My teachers rock.

This morning we got to go through the temple again! This time with our whole zone!

I'm super excited to get to Texas. One of the new elders in our district was talking about how his brother lives in Lubbock and it sucks and is just trash. BUT hes going to Tucson, the armpit of America, so jokes on him.

I have no funny stories this week :// like there's a few but all of them are me doing something to humiliate myself so Im not gonna share those. haha

I guess I'll share some funny catchphrases people in my district have:

sister Kovacs: I'm gonna cut someone (she's convinced someone broke into our room and stole her clear nail polish. Nothing else. Just her nail polish.)

Elder Biesemeyer: Hello? Shalom?

Elder Allen: It's a scorcher today! *as snow falls*

My district all thinks I'm so weird. I mean they're not wrong.

So yeah im freezing my booty off over here. RIP me

My spiritual thingy for the week comes from the Lamb of God performance. Peter is singing. He denies Christ three times like Christ said he would. then he sings a song that includes the words "you took all the stripes for me. could i not take one for thee?" i love that. i think there's a lot of times we "deny" Christ in little ways we don't necessarily realize. Wearing his name all the time makes it really hard for me to "deny" him though. i am excited to go into the field and be able to represent Jesus Christ, even though that is a huge responsibility and I am completely inadequate.

I love you all!